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Secrets of the Black Box

Charlotte Regional Manager, Tim Cheek, MS, PE, and Professional Engineer, Matt DiSogra, MS, PE, were recently invited to give a presentation on event data recorder (EDR) topics at a well-respected, top-100 trucking fleet. The theme of their presentation was “Secrets of the Black Box.” Tim and Matt thoroughly covered the topics of:

Vehicle networks and electronic control modules (ECMs)

What are they?

What do they do?

EDRs in cars vs. trucks

What triggers data recording?

Where is the data stored?

How is the data stored?

EDR specific to the fleet’s trucks

What triggers data recording?

What data is available?

Where is the data stored?

Other potential sources of event data

How to interpret event data

Data preservation issues

The presentation was highly interactive and involved hands-on interaction with the fleet’s trucks.

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